Canva - 100% Free for qualifying schools

[Jaan]

Hi all,

 

i've just finished setting this up for our school along with Google SSO and Classroom integration.

 

it's a really powerful tool, get signed up!

 

https://www.canva.com/education/

[paulkerton]

We did it a few years ago now. I adore Canva. It's so powerful (and clearly Adobe's free efforts for school are a blatant rip off of it!)

[ITGuyNW]

This might seem like a really dumb question, what are the benefits?

 

Also how was the process of getting all the kids accounts signed up with it?

Edited July 18, 2022 by ITGuyNW

[paulkerton]

This might seem like a really dumb question, what are the benefits?

It's a replacement to Microsoft Publisher, a video editor, a presentation tool, digital design tool - and it's free for schools.

Edited July 18, 2022 by paulkerton

[Jaan]

Also how was the process of getting all the kids accounts signed up with it?

 

We kids already have a Google account. I enabled SSO and setup SAML in our Google admin panel. The users could then just click on "Sign in with Google" and they are added to our Canva domain automatically.

[paulkerton]

Also how was the process of getting all the kids accounts signed up with it?

You sign up the domains your school/MAT use, so they just use "Sign in with Google" SSO and automatically get the premium account.

[Koldov]

Is there any set-up to integrate work between class/teacher (I mean do you have to set-up teachers and classes) or does it link into Google Classroom?

 

"Canva for Education connects to all your classroom tools

Canva for Education integrates with core classroom tools, including ...... Google Classroom ......"

 

Or is it all just done in-platform, saved and then shared out?

 

Also could do with someone proof-reading their website...

 

[DGardiner]

Is there any set-up to integrate work between class/teacher (I mean do you have to set-up teachers and classes) or does it link into Google Classroom?

 

"Canva for Education connects to all your classroom tools

Canva for Education integrates with core classroom tools, including ...... Google Classroom ......"

 

Or is it all just done in-platform, saved and then shared out?

 

Also could do with someone proof-reading their website...

 

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dunno about classroom integration, but it does full auto provisioning and sso - easy to setup

[saggu]

I log in with school's google account.

wanted to sign up as education and upgrade to pro. raised so many support requests but got no reply.

Any one has a contact email address for canva for education support?

[Jaan]

I log in with school's google account.

wanted to sign up as education and upgrade to pro. raised so many support requests but got no reply.

Any one has a contact email address for canva for education support?

 

You gone through this?

 

https://form826027.typeform.com/to/UEeNXu2v?typeform-source=www.canva.com

[jthompson]

Looks great, but having just had to explain to a bunch of colleagues why they'll have to abandon the Mote voice notes Chrome extension that they were all raving about last year because free-turned-into-not-free, I'm [even more] wary of getting anyone invested in a free-for-edu product that isn't absolutely essential. Edited July 19, 2022 by jthompson

[DGardiner]

You gone through this?

 

https://form826027.typeform.com/to/UEeNXu2v?typeform-source=www.canva.com

 

this is the way, the setup was pretty prompt for us

[ITGuyNW]

We kids already have a Google account. I enabled SSO and setup SAML in our Google admin panel. The users could then just click on "Sign in with Google" and they are added to our Canva domain automatically.

How long did it take for the process to complete? We have signed up, gone through SSO however on their side nothing seems to be linked yet and they aren't getting back to us quickly..

[Jaan]

Oh wow, it was 1 day for us

[tangotech]

I'm currently in contact with their support... everything setup as expected, correctly registered a school account with the forms ... but we have no SSO options at all!!

[DGardiner]

I'm currently in contact with their support... everything setup as expected, correctly registered a school account with the forms ... but we have no SSO options at all!!

iirc, you need to specifically request the sso as they need to do some form of whitelisting for the domains. once thats done your admin account has an option to enable sso login, then force sso login for domains.

 

it comes wit ha nice step by step powerpoint

[Jaan]

I'm currently in contact with their support... everything setup as expected, correctly registered a school account with the forms ... but we have no SSO options at all!!

 

this of any use?

 

https://www.canva.com/design/DAEeee8wXTM/-Uxfa8j29Xy5dKm98wb92Q/view

[tangotech]

iirc, you need to specifically request the sso as they need to do some form of whitelisting for the domains. once thats done your admin account has an option to enable sso login, then force sso login for domains.

 

it comes wit ha nice step by step powerpoint

 

I contacted them via the form, they replied within 2 days with lots of helpful guides and tips. But sadly, there was still not SSO options in our account. Their support has now directed me to a third line engineer which I've had to book a Teams call with to sort.

[ITGuyNW]

I contacted them via the form, they replied within 2 days with lots of helpful guides and tips. But sadly, there was still not SSO options in our account. Their support has now directed me to a third line engineer which I've had to book a Teams call with to sort.

 

Yeah we are the same where they seem to be taking a week at a time to reply to emails and getting nowhere.

 

We're at the stage where we're waiting for the SSO login to appear.. they did it two weeks ago apparently.

[tangotech]

Yeah we are the same where they seem to be taking a week at a time to reply to emails and getting nowhere.

 

We're at the stage where we're waiting for the SSO login to appear.. they did it two weeks ago apparently.

 

 

Did you ever get the SSO provision yet?... I'm still waiting

[ITGuyNW]

Did you ever get the SSO provision yet?... I'm still waiting

 

I'm still waiting... they've gone silent. Not heard anything in weeks.

[sister_annex]

Ours just worked. They sent me Instructions after I filled in the online Docusign stuff

[Jawloms]

We're currently looking at this. Do you need to install the client for all the students? If so, how do you do it for "All Users" as the installer seems to put it in the AppData folder.

[ITGuyNW]

Ours just worked. They sent me Instructions after I filled in the online Docusign stuff

 

How are you authenticating users? through google workspace or something else?

[Jawloms]

How are you authenticating users? through google workspace or something else?

 

Don't know yet as we're still at the looking stage. We aren't a Google school. We have O365 but I'm not sure you can SSO with that?